Lewis Hamilton says the car issue that dogged his Ferrari during the F1 Spanish Grand Prix “massively hindered” his perfor🌼mance.

After finishing a disappointing sixth in Barcelona, seven-time world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Hamilton described his race as being “the worst I’ve experienced” in a Fᩚᩚౠᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚerrari, having uncharacteristically struggled for pace.

Hamilton ran as high as fourth in the early stages before his performance dropped off, resulting in him being moved aside for his faster teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc.

He was also overtaken by Sauber’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg following a late Safety Car and finished seventh on the road, before being promoted one place thanks to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s penalty.

🅘Ferrari team prinꦉcipal Fred Vasseur revealed after the race that both Hamilton and Leclerc suffered issues on their cars, but would not disclose further details.

Hamilton was tight-lipped when he was asked about the problem ahead of this weekend’s F1 Canadian Grand Prix, but con𓃲firmed it did impact his ♓performance.

“Massively, massivel🐎y. Unfortunately th♑e team don’t want us to talk too much about it but we both had issues that were hindering us massively from half-way through the race already,” Hamilton said.

“What I didn’t know was if I had that problem but obviously I said on the radio that it was the worst feeling car thatไ I’d ever had and i🍸t truly was with that issue. 

"At the end of the race I was like ‘jeez, I hav🌃e never experienced something this bad for such a long time in a race’.”

Hamilton admits car issue a ‘relief’

Hamilton was visibly♒ dejected after a challenging race in Spain and apologised to Sky Sports F1’s Rachel Brookes for his downbeat interview.

The 40-year-old Briton admitted it was a “relief” for him to learn about the problem affecting his car during a team debrief after the TV❀ interviews took place.

“It wasn’t until after the TV interviews I get back to the engineers and we find out there was an issue,” he explained. “So it was a bit of a relief to hear that because I defin⛦itely didn’t feel so t🌠errible afterwards.”